Keeping Connections Alive

We talk a lot in this industry about keeping our connections alive, especially through the pandemic.

My podcasts have covered it as well as a multitude of others, blogs, articles, speaking gigs and so on, but firsthand I can tell you, you need to keep it up.

Especially now when it feels like this pandemic is dragging on forever. For myself, homeschooling and balancing the podcast, the startup of Twigged and work I’m doing with some amazing clients is bloody tough. Some days way harder than most switching from adverbials to art as part of just three conversations I’m having all at once… talk about the multi-tasking skills of an eventsprof shining through – we were made for this pandemic weren’t we?

But… those half hour conversations with event industry pals, people that have been living and breathing the same if not very similar situation that myself and others have been through has kept me going. Hearing people that have flipped their businesses to cope with the pandemic or those that have shifted their work world in a whole new way just to make ends meet. It’s been really tough for so many…but on a personal note, thank you to those that have inspired me to keep going.

It is also these conversations that has led to my latest venture – Twigged.

I’ve known Bogdan and Peter and the team for a number of years now, but catching up at the back end of 2020, well, just before Christmas to be precise, we had one of these catch ups to see how each other was doing.

Our mutual idea sharing came from us both talking to another one of our connections that realized we were both pretty much talking about the same thing… he reconnected us.

I shared the idea that I had been brewing for a while but that I needed techies (real techies, not techies like me who can just talk about it 😉). These guys shared a similar vision for making experiences better in events and had the tech experience as well… tentatively, we played with the idea of working together. A team was formed… ideas put to paper (well, Discord actually oh how Bogdan LOVES discord…) and now we have an amazing team working together on changing experiences in our industry.

I’m not going all salesy with what the product is on this particular post, but I wanted to let anyone that needs it know, change is possible. I can see light at the end of the never-ending tunnel at the minute. It may still be a moveable object, but please keep your connections alive - you never know where that next conversation may take you.

Thank you

Matt

We are going to be launching a weekly podcast of how it's all going at Twigged. Follow me and our journey at Twigged